Sarco suicide pod bosses are building a NEW capsule to carry out a SECOND euthanasia outside of Switzerland after cops seized original device in 'strangulation' probe

The inventor of nan Sarco pod has revealed he is building a caller instrumentality to transportation retired a 2nd assisted suicide, arsenic Swiss prosecutors proceed to analyse nan decease of an American female wrong nan nitrogen capsule.

Dr Philip Nitschke has vowed to people a caller instrumentality - made utilizing a 3D printer - successful nan Netherlands to usage successful a state different than Switzerland, wherever prosecutors seized nan original pod aft its motorboat connected September 23.

Nitschke's subordinate Dr Florian Willet was arrested aft cops swooped connected nan wood successful nan bluish municipality of Merishausen, wherever a 64-year-old American female was recovered dormant wrong nan pod.

The Last Resort and Exit International - nan organisations down Sarco - person insisted that its first personification voluntarily entered nan pod and pushed a fastener to capable nan enclosure pinch nitrogen gas, triggering her ain death. 

But Chief Prosecutor Peter Sticher has since raised nan suspicion of 'intentional homicide' aft suggesting successful tribunal that nan female whitethorn person been strangled, Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant reports.

Despite nan ongoing probe, nan confiscation of nan Sarco, and pinch Willet still down bars 5 weeks on, avid euthanasia advocator Nitschke has vowed to proceed his work, and plans to thief different personification to dice arsenic soon arsenic possible.

The Australian erstwhile GP is based successful nan Netherlands pinch his woman and chap campaigner Dr Fiona Stewart, and heads up nan euthanasia group Exit International, which he founded.

Their offices successful Haarlem and Amsterdam were raided by Dutch cops successful a associated cognition pinch Swiss authorities aft nan motorboat of nan Sarco, pinch laptops and a prototype of nan capsule confiscated.

'We haven't really sewage immoderate instrumentality to usage now, truthful while I'm present successful nan Netherlands - and I'm present for nan foreseeable early - we person started to people different one,' Nitschke said successful a YouTube video this week.

'As soon arsenic we get that printed I conjecture we'll beryllium capable to scheme immoderate shape of usage of nan instrumentality and we've sewage respective strategies that we're looking astatine successful item that don't impact nan uncertainty of Switzerland.'

Nitschke said he chose Switzerland arsenic nan location for nan motorboat of Sarco because it was nan only state successful nan world wherever individuals person a correct to person assistance to extremity their life. 

Swiss rule besides does not require a expert to transportation retired nan procedure, pinch assisting someone's decease besides ineligible truthful agelong arsenic nan personification acts 'unselfishly'.

These factors meant Nitschke and his squad had viewed nan state arsenic nan champion spot usage nan instrumentality without ineligible repercussions, nevertheless its usage has now go nan taxable of what he called 'significant ineligible concern'.

While deciding connected nan prospective location of a 2nd Sarco motorboat remains a awesome hurdle, Exit International and its partner organisation The Last Resort - headed by Willet - would person a agelong database of candidates to take from to usage it.

Some 120 applicants dream to usage nan instrumentality to extremity their lives, The Last Resort antecedently told MailOnline, pinch astir a 4th of those connected nan waiting database said to beryllium British people. 

But Nitschke said nan raids and confiscation of nan functioning and prototype Sarco mean 'it's a small difficult to scheme now regarding nan adjacent step.' 

He admitted that location had been 'a fewer unexpected developments' since nan long-awaited motorboat of his termination instrumentality past month, adding that he could not spell into overmuch item owed to nan ongoing ineligible proceedings.

The 77-year-old and his squad insist they had cleared each nan ineligible hurdles, but prosecutors person suggested otherwise.

Sticher, nan nationalist charismatic successful Schaffhausen, nan canton wherever nan instrumentality was used, said astatine nan clip that Sarco's creators had been warned not to run it successful nan region, but that nan informing had not been heeded.

He has since raised suspicions that nan female whitethorn person been strangled and that her decease could person been 'intentional homicide'.

However, he has not publically accused Willet of 'intentional homicide', alternatively utilizing his 'suspicion' to get a judge to widen his custody, according to Dutch newspaper de Volksrant. 

Willet, who was nan only personification coming astatine nan woman's decease and had been video calling Nitschke astatine nan time, was arrested and reportedly questioned connected suspicion of aiding and abetting suicide, among different unnamed offences.

Sticher has not publically accused Willet of 'intentional homicide', alternatively utilizing his 'suspicion' to get a judge to widen his custody, according to Dutch newspaper de Volksrant.

There has besides been nary charismatic autopsy study released to backmost up nan claims of strangulation, pinch The Last Resort claiming that nan results person 'been kept hidden', including from their lawyers and others progressive successful nan case.

The deceased female had reportedly been diagnosed pinch skull guidelines osteomyelitis - a disease could manifest arsenic an infection of nan bony marrow, which could person been responsible for nan marks connected her cervix resembling strangulation marks, according to a personification adjacent to The Last Resort who said to Swiss outlet NZZ. 

Willet and Nitschke support that she died from hypoxia wrong nan capsule aft entering and activating nan capsule 'unaided'.

Knowing location would request to beryllium an investigation - arsenic location is successful immoderate assisted dying lawsuit successful Switzerland - they alerted nan police, who they said sewage to nan wood successful Merishausen hours later.

'The lid of nan Sarco was not opened until forensic unit arrived astatine nan segment of nan Sarco astatine 19.22,' The Last Resort said successful a statement.

The woman's oxygen levels were recorded and remained astatine lethal levels wrong nan capsule until good aft she had died, it went on.

The patient said it assumed that nan charismatic was successful possession of nan movie footage which it claims to beryllium its type of events, which it says is corroborated by Volksrant's report.

Volksrant said it had viewed and analysed nan footage shared pinch it by The Last Resort and recovered nary denotation of tampering, though admitted that this tin ne'er beryllium afloat ruled out.

The newspaper besides reported that movie was captured erstwhile location were clear movements wrong nan pod, meaning location are gaps.

It starts astatine astir 3.47pm connected September 23, showing nan female approaching nan capsule on pinch Willet, who removed a greenish tarpaulin from nan instrumentality arsenic she prepared to climb in.

'If you're ready...?' Willet reportedly asked her. 'Do I time off my shoes on?' responded nan woman, who was wearing loose achromatic trousers, a woolly achromatic cardigan and sandals.

He said she could support them on, and she proceeded to measurement into nan futuristic pod, dishonesty down and set nan purple recreation pillow placed wrong down her head, according to Volksrant.

Before pushing nan button, Willet asked nan female whether she would for illustration to speak to Nitschke, who was connected a video telephone from Germany to show nan long-awaited motorboat of his device.

'No. I'm okay,' she reportedly replied. Willet, who was nan only personification coming astatine nan woman's death, took this arsenic an denotation that nan process could begin, Volksrant reports, telling Nitschke: 'It seems that [...] is fresh to go.'

The blonde woman, who said she had wished to dice for 'at slightest 2 years' while suffering pinch a 'very superior unwellness that involves terrible pain', is past said to person closed nan lid of nan pod without hesitation.

A bluish fastener indicating nan unit wrong nan capsule past lit up, while an soul camera showed parts of her hair, but small else, arsenic she laic waiting, according to Volksrant.

'Ready?' she past said to Willet, according to nan newspaper, successful what would beryllium her last words. He reportedly confirmed that he was, earlier she responded 'okay.'

Almost instantly afterwards, astatine astir 3.54pm, she is said to person pressed nan fastener to trigger her death.

Under instruction from Nitschke nan mother-of-two past began breathing profoundly and calmly - a process he informed her would hasten her decease arsenic nitrogen filled nan capsule.

Holding an iPad connected which he monitored her bosom rate, saturation, and oxygen levels, Willet told nan female to 'keep connected breathing'. 

Her oxygen levels - 20 per cent successful normal aerial - plummeted to 0.6, Willet told Nitschke aft a minute, and past to 0.3 percent aft almost 2 and a half minutes.

At astir this time, her assemblage began severely cramping up, Willet said, a communal denotation successful nitrogen deaths. 

While small was visible connected nan soul camera, footage taken externally appeared to show a acheronian spot look connected nan wrong of nan fogged up window, astir wherever nan woman's knees were.

At 4.01 pm, an siren blared from nan iPad, thought to beryllium nan bosom complaint monitor, pinch a seemingly confused Willet reportedly telling his associate: 'She's still alive, Philip.'

He leaned complete and peered into nan Sarco, and aft a while, nan siren is said to person stopped.

At 4.04pm, he reportedly said that nan female had not moved for astir 2 minutes. 

It is unclear astatine what constituent it happened, but astir half an hr aft she pressed nan button, Willet described to Nitschke really nan female died.

'She had her eyes closed', he said. 'And she was breathing very deeply. Then nan breathing slowed down. And past it stopped.'

'She really looks dead,' he added.

Willet was among respective group arrested astatine nan segment and reportedly remains successful solitary confinement successful custody. 

Two lawyers and a photographer for Volksrant - who are understood to person only arrived astatine nan segment aft nan female died - were besides arrested earlier being released aft 48 hours.

Swiss rule allows assisted termination truthful agelong arsenic nan personification takes his aliases her life pinch nary 'external assistance' and those who thief nan personification dice do not do truthful for 'any self-serving motive,' according to a authorities website.

Switzerland is among nan fewer countries successful nan world wherever foreigners tin recreation to legally extremity their lives, and is location to a number of organizations that are dedicated to helping group termination themselves.

Some lawmakers successful Switzerland person based on that nan rule is unclear and person sought to adjacent what they telephone ineligible loopholes.

The instrumentality was utilized connected nan aforesaid time arsenic Swiss Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider told nan National Council that she considers nan usage of nan Sarco successful Switzerland to beryllium illegal. 

'The Sarco termination capsule is not ineligible successful 2 respects,' Baume-Schneider reportedly said.

She added: 'On 1 hand, it does not fulfill nan demands of nan merchandise information law, and arsenic such, must not beryllium brought into circulation. On nan different hand, nan corresponding usage of nitrogen is not compatible pinch nan article connected intent successful nan chemicals law.' 

Nitschke and his associates designed Sarco, which is made utilizing a 3D printer, to beryllium free, pinch group conscionable paying for their assemblage to beryllium removed by ceremonial directors.

The female who utilized nan instrumentality only paid nan costs for nan nitrogen: 18 Swiss francs, according to nan Last Resort.

The patient intends to make assisted dying almost wholly free of charge, pinch nan cost, which is adjacent to astir £16, contrasting pinch nan fees of astir Swiss clinics, which usually complaint astir £10,000. 

The pod is designed to let a personification wrong to push a fastener that injects nitrogen state into nan sealed chamber, according to its creators.

The pods activity by replacing air, which is 21 per cent oxygen and 79 per cent nitrogen, pinch 100 per cent nitrogen. 

The personification is past expected to autumn dormant and dice by suffocation successful a fewer minutes. 

Nitschke and Stewart person agelong said that they intend for Sarco to go an established and accessible action for euthanasia. 

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